Medical Entomology Project.
Abstract
The Medical Entomology Project (MEP), a cooperative venture between the Smithsonian Institution and the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command, conducts biosystematic research on arthropods of medical importance to the Army. MEP fulfills this requirement by performing biosystematic studies on important groups of vectors such as anopheline vectors of malaria and culicine vectors of arbovirus diseases, providing information on potential vectors for the guidance of military field research teams and other governmental agencies and preparing monographs and technical papers which summarize data on the ecology, taxonomy and medical importance of arthropod vectors in various regions of the world. In addition, MEP performs curation and research on the national collection of mosquitoes at the national Museum of Natural History (USNM), Smithsonian Institution. Five short papers on systematics or distributions, one on Oriental Anopheles, three on Neotropical Culex (Melanoconion) and one reporting the discovery of the European Culiseta annulata in the United States were published during the year. Three large monographic revisions were published during the year. These treat the Albimanus Section of the subgenus Nyssorhynchus of the genus Anopheles of the New World, the Aedes (Stegomyia) Scutellaris Group of Tonga and the Myzomyia Series of the Anopheles (Cellia) in Thailand.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1981
- Accession Number
- ADA103017
Entities
People
- Oliver S. Flint Jr
Organizations
- Smithsonian Institution